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It looks like Manning isn't going to publish the JAAS book. Half to 60% of the final reviews all said "I wouldn't spend $50 on this book." So, Manning's decision, of course, makes sense.

It's sad on one hand -- having my name on a print book would be cool -- but happy on the other in that I have a shit-load (relative to blogs and web pages) of content that I can push out to the world now. You, dear readers, that in the end I value the second much more than the first ;>

A Book Wiki-Thingy

Now, the books all mine, so what I'd like to do is create a wiki of sorts out of it. I'm not sure what software to use, but I'd like to have it do something like the following:

• Allow me to "lock" the book section of the page. I'm not completely sure if I want to do this: it might be better to just let people edit anything. That might increase and maintain the books accuracy and quality much better than keeping the "core content" static.
• Allow people to add "notes" to any section -- at least at the paragraph level of granularity.
• Allow comments to be added at the bottom.
• Prevent spammers from defacing/spamming.
• Be PHP, ruby, or python so I can host it at textdrive

Does anyone know of an app that'll let me do all that?

Copyediting

Also, it'd be nice to get someone to read over the book for typos, misspellings, and general mistakes. I'm a terrible speller, so I'm not up for the job. If you're really interested, I'd be glad if you could help out. Otherwise, I just might rely on putting it up on a wiki for copy-editing.

Tags: book, collab, jaas, java, wiki.